Phone +1 215-427-5000 Founded 1875 | Emergency department Pediatric Level I Number of beds 189 | |
Lists Hospitals in the United States Address 160 E Erie Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19134, USA Hours Open today · Open 24 hours · See hoursFridayOpen 24 hoursSaturday12AM–11:59PMSundayOpen 24 hoursMondayOpen 24 hoursTuesdayOpen 24 hoursWednesdayOpen 24 hoursThursdayOpen 24 hoursSuggest an edit Parent organization Tenet HealthSystem Philadelphia, Inc. Subsidiaries SCHC Pediatric Associates, L.L.C. Similar Children's Hospital of Philadelp, Hahnema University Hospital, Orthopedic Center For Children, Einstein Medical Center P, Friends Hospital | ||
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St. Christopher's Hospital for Children is a 189 bed non-sectarian children’s hospital located in Philadelphia. It is one of the oldest full-service hospitals in the United States totally dedicated to the care of children. St. Christopher’s Hospital has an academic affiliation with Drexel University College of Medicine and the Temple University School of Medicine.
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St christopher s hospital for children
About
On November 30, 1875, founder William H. Bennett, MD, opened St. Christopher’s Hospital as a charitable ambulatory pediatric clinic. Over the years, the hospital added several buildings before outgrowing its quarters and in 1990, the hospital relocated to its present location on Erie Avenue and Front Street. This facility includes an acute care hospital, a medical office building, a teaching and research center and research laboratories.
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children operates several satellite offices throughout the Greater Philadelphia region and southern New Jersey. These include primary care offices and pediatric specialty care centers in Yardley, Pennsylvania, Northeast Philadelphia, East Falls, Pennsylvania, Reading, Pennsylvania and Washington Twp., Southern New Jersey.
The Pediatric Residency at St. Christopher's is top ranked. Each year St. Christopher's Hospital for Children receives thousands of applications to its Pediatric Residency Program from which 300 are selected to interview. From this group, St. Christopher's selects 24 PL-1 residents through the National Resident Matching Program.
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Clinical services and programs
St. Christopher's Hospital for Children offers health care services for children from birth through 21 years of age. Pediatric services include sub-specialties such as cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, nephrology, neurology, pulmonary, oncology, and rheumatology. The hospital also provides pediatric surgical services such as cardiothoracic surgery, general surgery, neurosurgery, orthopaedic surgery, and plastic and reconstructive surgery. The hospital operates a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center, a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and a pediatric burn center. Other services and programs include minimally invasive surgery, cystic fibrosis center, sickle cell anemia care and research center, AIDS/HIV program, sleep center and fetal evaluation center.